This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

In this talk, I’ll present the results from a project carried out in 2019-2021, which is concerned with L2 learners’ sensitivity to exceptions to the general rules of (short) wh-movement and complementation in English (Chomsky 1957, et seq.).

Carmen Alvarez-Mayo (Lecturer in Spanish) invites you to this film screening of the film “Carne Trémula”.

A key early stage of a variationist study is to identify the envelope of variation: for the variable under study, in which linguistic contexts do we see variation, and in which contexts does one of the variants simply occur categorically?

Talk on “Il Medioevo e il capolavoro di Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa”

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

In recent years, a growing body of work in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning has turned its attention to “alternative assessment”: varieties of coursework that reject many assumptions inherent in the traditional exam or essay.

Please come and hear a personal account of the demanding job of a European Parliament interpreter at the difficult time when her country is at war.

Natural languages adopt at least four distinct morpho-syntactic strategies in the expressionof superlative meaning (see also Bobaljik 2012; Gorshenin 2012; Coppock 2016), including(i) a dedicated morpheme, (ii) a comparative paraphrase, (iii) the use of an intensifier, and(iv) the use of the Positive form.

With the advent of a better understanding of grammatical architecture as well as the development of articulated models of language structure, it has become apparent that the same surface phenomenon may have different underlying representations.

The most powerful influence exerted on linguistic structures during processing is their current internal context.

In this talk I discuss speech production in a context of language endangerment, revitalisation, and bilingualism.

On the 12th July 2024, a group of PGR students from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science and the Department of Sociology are hosting the inaugural York Conference on Conversation Analysis (YorCCA).

The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication (CASLC), an interdisciplinary centre led by the department of Language and Linguistic Science and the department of Sociology, will be leading two CPD courses this year from their suite of Conversation Analysis courses for professionals and researchers.

Our department is pleased to host the second Phonetics/Phonology Unconference on Pedagogy (Phon-UP) on June 10th.

PhD students Ben Gibb-Reid, Victoria Noble, Rosario Neyra, Heather Turner and Jamie Adams will be part of a panel discussion at the Festival of Ideas called “Mind your Language”.

Our native language or ‘mother tongue’ can change during our adult lives when we move to a different region or country long-term. Known as ‘native language attrition’ this can affect our identity and sense of ourselves.

Explore the ways languages are used in a fun interactive Kamishibai storytelling session.

On Wednesday 5 June 2024, the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host a talk on Opera and Risorgimento italiano presented by the Tenor Matteo Pavlica (Teatro Regio, Turin, Italy).

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science.

The screening of Fatih Akin's Kurz und schmerzlos (Germany 1998) is a student project as part of the module “Contemporary German Speaking Film” (Dept of Language and Linguistic Science)

The LfA Japanese Elementary Course 23-24 is drawing to a close after months of diligent study that commenced in October. To celebrate their accomplishments, the students will present a brief summary of their achievements.

The Languages Café drop in sessions -- only 3 more sessions left this semester

Talk on Torino and the history of FIAT

The Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York is delighted to welcome Alain Mielle, Head of Innovation at the Council of Europe, for a series of three talks entitled “Multilingual Communication: From the Nuremberg Trials to the Age of AI”.

On 14 March, 2024, Makiko Hirakawa (Chuo University) will present research on "Interpretation and processing of the Japanese reflexive zibun by native Japaneseand Chinese-speaking learners". The talk will be followed by a light drinks reception and dinner with the speaker.

On Thursday 7th March, we will show a film screening of Surviving Translation, co-created and co-produced by Dr Charlotte Bosseaux (University of Edinburgh). A Q&A will follow the screening. This is a special colloquium event to mark International Women's Day.

On 22 February, 2024, Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto) will present research on "Why do North Americans say ‘gotten’? Evidence from Canadian dialects". The talk will be followed by a light drinks reception and dinner with the speaker. To RSVP for the dinner, please, complete this google form. All are welcome!

On Thursday 15th February, Laura Rupp (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) will present research on "On the hunt for obsolescing grammatical dialect features".

On Friday 9th February 2024 the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host the event ‘Careers and PG Studies in Translation and Interpreting’.

On Thursday 8th February 2024 the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host its annual Alumni Event ‘What can you do with a degree in Language and Linguistics?’.